This alfresco feast from Eureka!, a Dallas restaurant and gourmet-to-go emporium (4011 Villanova), can turn a backyard cookout or tailgate picnic into a classy occasion.

A grilled chicken breast marinated in lemon and garlic provides this custom menu’s mainstay, with assistance from an emphatic tomato-basil sauce touched with Parmesan.

A cool salad of roasted corn and red bell peppers offers a colorful counterpoint, and for dessert, there’s a heavenly baked meringue cloud. Topped by strawberries and raspberries spiked with hazelnut flavoring, the billowy sweet looks as if it might well float off the plate.

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